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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






2. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






3. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






5. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






6. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






7. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






8. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






9. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






10. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






11. Whole body learning






12. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






13. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






14. r-controlled syllable






15. State Board of Eduation






16. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






17. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






18. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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19. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






20. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






21. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






22. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






23. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






24. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






25. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






26. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






27. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






28. Multisensory Structured Language Education






29. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






30. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






31. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






32. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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33. Academic Language Therapy Association






34. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






35. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






36. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






37. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






38. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






39. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






40. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






41. Feeling through fingertips






42. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






43. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






44. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






45. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






46. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






47. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






48. Individual Educational Plan






49. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






50. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -